Ever been dissed for wearing your favorite shirt?

And I should have shown my guy I was an inmate?

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Cool! Next time his eyes are mine...

I comment on peoples shirts all the time.....I say, I love your shirt, that's funny, or that's interesting, what does it mean. If I see a superhero shirt I ask, are you a fan. But I would never look at someone at laugh at them cause they were wearing a certain shirt. I just assume that they like the product/character the shirt represents or it's just a shirt. I don't expect someone who wears a shirt depicting a pro wrestler to be a pro wrestler. The guy was just a jerk who picked the wrong day and wrong person to assert his jerkiness on.

This one guy had a really cool Jim Lee shirt once so i pointed it out and said "hey, nice Jim Lee shirt" to which he looked at me crazy and said, "THIS.... is Batman...."

I was befuddled. "Yes... my mistake of course it is."

In high school i never wore a comic shirt so that has never come up, but I did however have a Kiss shirt that i bought from a second hand store that was freaking awesome and it was from some concert so i wore it to school. a bunch of guys who don't understand the musical awesomeness that is kiss in the 8th grade took offense for some reason and started saying that i had not been to that concert so i should never wear it... it was annoying as hell.

at one point in highschool i shaved my head to a mohawk and then wore the nices clothes goodwill had to offer so i had on ties and really weird colored shirts and stuff. it was cool for like 3 bucks i could get like two ties and a shirt. i had the coolest windsor knot in my senior class.

Hmm, this thread hasn't digressed at all. ;D

About a year ago I was in the mall wearing my Robin t-shirt when two teenage guys yelled at me, "How old do you think you are?"

I responded with, "Old enough to know you're not going to amount to much."

That was the only time. Wearing my Super T's is cool, and I don't care what anyone says. And bravo Roy! Good for you for standing up to the guy.

I was in a mall in Austin, Texas just before the first Tim Burton Batman movie came out and sporting my new Batsymbol t-shirt when some youngsters like myself (at the time) passed by and started singing the theme to the old TV show. Nananananana. It caught me off-guard for a short time. The shirts had been showing up a lot in underground places like skate shops and other places and the movie looked like it was going to rock, so I was pretty happy to wear it. It was odd to me that someone would go out of their way to comment on it. But looking back, the Batman movie dropped and was huge. It changed the public perception of the character and was the beginning of the comic book's long rise to prominence in the mainstream. Since then we've had Clerks, Buffy, and the Internet. It's a different world of pop culture and what was once only discussed by sweaty men in Spock ears at convention centers is now making huge money for various media conglomerates and debated with endless fervor online by people around the globe. It's the age of Geek Pride and some people just aren't in on it yet.

I've owned and worn a good number of pop culture themed t-shirts since then and have only received a smattering of comments. I usually just brush them off as I think there is still this line out there somewhere between 1986 (the year of Watchmen/Dark Knight Returns where comics came of age) and 1989 (where the world at large was clued in that comics weren't just for kids anymore with the first modern Batman movie). Anybody still going out of their way to cut on somebody is still living out there in the way things were, a mindset of over twenty years ago, and a dying breed. There are many more people now that are "in on it" and willing to give you a smile or a nod to show that they approve.

Much to my mothers annoyance, my wardrobe is mostly made up of superhero shirts... But now I'm slowly trying to gain a second wardrobe with hard rock t-shirts in. I'm starting small, but of Metallica... But I'm going for some Zep (got a Stairway to Heaven one!) and some Danzig...

You know your getting serious when you start making your own t-shirts with printer transfer paper. (That's how I got my Venture Bros. tee)

Shell out the extra money for the kind that prints on color shirts. You'll be glad you did.

Well, it wasn't a shirt actually....


During my last year in High School, I wore a fedora everday. It was my silent rebellion against the bourgeoisie eyesore of baseball hats everybody wore. Most of the students didn't even bother trying to get a nice hats, they wore those plastic abominations.

Anyways, I got some odd comments initially. Eventually, everyone in the school stopped calling me "that French dude" and started calling me "the fancy hat dude".

OH MY GOD, i had a fedora i wore too, although mine drew more comparisons to the blues brothers.

what happened to it, George Costanza??

In junior high and part of high school, I used to get "dissed" for wearing Insane Clown Posse and Psychopathic Records t-shirts. The insults were never clever though. All the person or people would say was "Insane Clown Posse" kind of loud, and then they would laugh to themselves.

I think I only ever heard someone say something once about one of my Batman shirts. They said something like "Hey look, it's Batman", and I said "Hey, it's a D!@*head." We both just continued to walk.

Got my Superman shirt today: Classic.